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Fencer Vulns
low 2.9

CVE-2024-58261 json

Low severity (DoS) vulnerability in sequoia-openpgp

published 2024-06-26 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-9344-p847-qm5c , RUSTSEC-2024-0345 , EUVD-2024-54821

cvss
2.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The sequoia-openpgp crate 1.13.0 before 1.21.0 for Rust allows an infinite loop of "Reading a cert: Invalid operation: Not a Key packet" messages for RawCertParser operations that encounter an unsupported primary key type.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io sequoia-openpgp 1.21.0
  • sequoia-pgp sequoia 1.21.0
  • rust-sequoia-openpgp Debian 14, Debian 13 1.21.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-58261

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-58261 updated cvss 2.9

sequoia-openpgp: Sequoia OpenPGP: RawCertParser Infinite Loop Vulnerability

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 rust-rpm-sequoia Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 kata-containers
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer rhtpa/rhtpa-trustification-service-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rpm-sequoia, rust-rpm-sequoia, trustee-guest-components Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 rust-sequoia-sq, rust-sequoia-sqv, trustee-guest-components
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
15 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia/-/issues/1106 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 2.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 2.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io sequoia-openpgp
>=1.13.0, <1.21.0
1.21.0

Affected products

  • sequoia-pgp sequoia

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

Sources

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